So a good friend of mine James (@Nxxus) is taking part in Extra Life this year to raise money for charity. More specifically, they’re trying to raise money for Children’s Miracle Hospitals.

On the 20th October, he and two friends will be embarking on an epic 24-hour sponsored gaming marathon, where they’re aiming to complete every Sonic game they can get their hands on (currently at a total of 19!).

Now James has set a few targets for his campaign:

$200: Continuing past the 24 hours until they’ve finished every game on the list (livestreamed), unless there’s a medical reason they must stop

Now, because raising money for kids hospitals is awesome and seeing one of my best friends dye his hair white is icing on the cake, I’d like to help James out, by adding a fourth goal:

$1000: If we reach this amount, I’ll release the in-progress Raspberry Pi Chromium OS image. Be aware, it is VERY slow and unusable, but lots of folks have been asking me for it anyway, so here’s your chance to grab it. I’ll also join James live on his livestream on the 20th October for all to watch.

If anyone can suggest extra goals, things I could do to persuade people to donate, then I’m open to suggestions!

If we reach the goal, I’ll release the image for download for everyone (and then go hide from the barrage of people complaining it’s too slow to play Angry Birds).

It’s not really a ransom at all, I just want to help a friend raise some money for charity and I figured it was a nice reward for hitting a somewhat lofty goal.

On the other hand, you should be aware that you aren’t going to be using this to get work done, it’s very much a “look what we can do” type demo. You’re talking perhaps 45 seconds to boot and then a further minute or two just to login. Loading Google? Another few minutes.

With some tasty graphical acceleration, however? It’s gonna fly in comparison. There just so happens to be some work on that happening as I type, so perhaps in a few weeks or months, we’ll see a faster more usable version.

Hopefully releasing this version will pique the interest of some more developers to join in with this effort, too!

I saw this too and put it up on my site not a lot of visitors but working hard at it. I see the $200 goal was met that’s awesome I commend you on putting up your beta very noble gesture I wish him all the luck hope it goes even further. I think if someone could get their hands on a rev 2 or an ‘A’ board hint* hint* it could go through the roof. Maybe even a signed book or something ;)